Quote Originally Posted by jon_norstog View Post
When we were kids we used to shoot old UMC .43 Spanish rounds in our rolling block rifles. That stuff was at least 60 years old and maybe older. If the primers fired, the round would go off with a bang and an evil, blue cloud of mephitic smoke. The duds we would pull the bullets and use the powder for bombs. We were kind of evil, feral children.

jn

For SHAME! Shooting Assault Rolling blocks. In the pre-GCA 68 high school ROTC years we cadets made plenty of home made pyrotechnics....